Events and calendars
Upcoming events can come from a supported Google Calendar, iCal feed, or website calendar. Staff continue maintaining the calendar they already use, and ParishRelay gives parishioners a clear view of what is coming next.
Features
A focused app, not another system to run.
ParishRelay brings the information parishioners need into one simple place while leaving the underlying work in the systems parish staff already know. Its usefulness comes from the way those pieces are presented together, not from trying to recreate every system behind them.
For parishioners
Everything important is easier to reach.
A parishioner should not need to remember which calendar contains an event, where the newest bulletin was posted, or which part of the website holds the giving link. ParishRelay provides a single, mobile-friendly starting point for the information people look for most often.
The experience remains intentionally simple. It can grow as useful connections become available, but it does not need an enormous feature inventory to solve the central problem.
A practical layer over parish life.
The exact configuration depends on the parish's sources and the reliable connections those systems make available.
News and announcements
Information already published by the parish can be gathered into a concise mobile view. This keeps timely notices visible without asking the office to write and maintain a second version for the app.
Bulletins and useful documents
Existing publication pages and PDF bulletins can remain where they are hosted today. ParishRelay makes the current and recent material easier to locate from a phone.
Giving
The app points parishioners to the giving service selected by the parish. ParishRelay does not process the gift or ask the parish to change providers simply to include giving in the app.
Daily readings and observances
Daily information may be presented alongside parish life using jurisdictional or diocesan sources where the content is properly licensed or permitted. The source and its terms remain respected.
Parish identity and domain
The parish name, colors, visual identity, contact information, and public domain shape the experience. ParishRelay provides the platform, but the app is presented as the parish's own.
A clear boundary
What belongs somewhere else can stay somewhere else.
ParishRelay does not need to process donations, become the parish website, or replace office software in order to make parish information easier to find. When an existing system does its job well, the better product decision is usually to connect to it.
That boundary keeps the app simpler for parishioners, avoids duplicate work for staff, and keeps ParishRelay from turning into the kind of sprawling management platform it was created to avoid.
Review the integration categories A practical next step
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